North Star (1996)
Actors:
Kant Pan (editor),
Aslaug Konradsdottir (miscellaneous crew),
Michael A. Hoey (editor),
Burt Young (actor),
Christopher Lambert (producer),
John Scott (composer),
Sergio Donati (writer),
Heck Allen (writer),
Jacques François (actor),
Sverre Anker Ousdal (actor),
Nicholas Hope (actor),
James Caan (actor),
Christopher Lambert (actor),
Mimi Lempicka (costume designer),
Petter J. Borgli (producer),
Plot: Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800's. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every mining claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantange of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, action-hero, alaska, animal-abuse, anti-hero, arrest, auction, bar-brawl, bar-fight
Genres:
Action,
Adventure,
Crime,
Drama,
Western,
Taglines: Where land is power and revenge is obsession.
Quotes:
[first lines]::Reno: Where is Hudson Saanteek?
Sean McLennon: Nobody dies till I say they die!
[last lines]::Hudson Saanteek: My ancestors taught me you cannot own the land, you can only respect it. This is what I fought for and what I will always believe.